A friend of mine has an old iMac G4 (10.3.9)
(not that it really matters, I guess)
And he just recently bought the latest Macbook, and wanted to transfer all his files over, so I talked him through it, and everything worked fine.
Except he was having an issue with transferring his Address Book over, it was just a case of not knowing how to do it.
So I popped over to his place, and just as I was about to export I noticed all his (100's) address' were duplicated 8 times each!
So I suggested to Merge them all before we do the export, so we selected ALL and clicked on Merge.
Then we got the "Spinning Beach Ball" and I wasn't surprised, as the machine only has about 256MB RAM, I figured it would take a while to process.
But right then, unfortunately there was a power cut in his block for 30 minutes!
When everything came back on we were unable to open the address book!
It bounced once, and then nothing, I could see the small black arrow under the Address book icon in the dock, but there was nothing.
So, this is what I tried to do:
1 - I shut the machine down and restarted holding down the options-command-P-R keys all at once, did the 3 chimes in order to reset the Pram, but no luck.
2 - I took the Address Book out of the Applications Folder and onto the desktop, and tried to open it from there, but still no joy (so I put it back).
3 - I ran 'Disk Utility' which showed nothing.
4 - I went into mail, and was able to open up the email address book there, but I couldn't see the physical real home address' which is what my friend really needs.
And the 'Start Up' 10.3 Install disks got lost long ago, I think!
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So now we're stuck. I'd just like to get this whole address book out of this iMac and into the new Macbook.
The intention is to clear the machine up, and pass it on to a younger member of the family as a free gift (in good working order).
I'm sure there must be a way around this, and if anyone can help I'd be very, very grateful...
Right now I'm getting looks from my friend of "I thought you knew what you were doing?" LOL
(not that it really matters, I guess)
And he just recently bought the latest Macbook, and wanted to transfer all his files over, so I talked him through it, and everything worked fine.
Except he was having an issue with transferring his Address Book over, it was just a case of not knowing how to do it.
So I popped over to his place, and just as I was about to export I noticed all his (100's) address' were duplicated 8 times each!
So I suggested to Merge them all before we do the export, so we selected ALL and clicked on Merge.
Then we got the "Spinning Beach Ball" and I wasn't surprised, as the machine only has about 256MB RAM, I figured it would take a while to process.
But right then, unfortunately there was a power cut in his block for 30 minutes!
When everything came back on we were unable to open the address book!
It bounced once, and then nothing, I could see the small black arrow under the Address book icon in the dock, but there was nothing.
So, this is what I tried to do:
1 - I shut the machine down and restarted holding down the options-command-P-R keys all at once, did the 3 chimes in order to reset the Pram, but no luck.
2 - I took the Address Book out of the Applications Folder and onto the desktop, and tried to open it from there, but still no joy (so I put it back).
3 - I ran 'Disk Utility' which showed nothing.
4 - I went into mail, and was able to open up the email address book there, but I couldn't see the physical real home address' which is what my friend really needs.
And the 'Start Up' 10.3 Install disks got lost long ago, I think!
----
So now we're stuck. I'd just like to get this whole address book out of this iMac and into the new Macbook.
The intention is to clear the machine up, and pass it on to a younger member of the family as a free gift (in good working order).
I'm sure there must be a way around this, and if anyone can help I'd be very, very grateful...
Right now I'm getting looks from my friend of "I thought you knew what you were doing?" LOL
